News from September 2014
By EPA Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell seeking more information regarding the ongoing Ebola outbreak and preparedness and response efforts at home and abroad.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Arizona Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet in Phoenix on September 9-10, 2014. Established in 1995, the statewide citizen-based council provides advice to the BLM on land management programs and issues affecting public lands in Arizona. In addition, the RAC...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: CARLSBAD, New Mexico -In honor of the National Park Service's 98th birthday on Monday, Aug. 25, entrance fees will be waived at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The waiver of park entry fees includes Carlsbad Caverns and the 264 other National Park Service (NPS) sites across the country that charge admission. Admission to the rest of NPS's 401 parks already is free.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio today, 52-year-old Alvin Roundtree was sentenced to the maximum 20 years in federal prison for plotting to kill his intimate partner announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher H. Combs, San Antonio Division, and United States Marshal Robert Almonte.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Following an observation by a fisheries biologist and member of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe of a possible Chinook salmon in the former Lake Mills, two Olympic National Park fisheries staff conducted a snorkel survey of the Elwha River above the old Glines Canyon dam site.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted the three owners and two medical directors of Healthy Life Medical Group, a purported pain management clinic, on drug conspiracy and other charges. The indictment was returned on Sept. 3, 2014, and unsealed today upon the arrest of the defendants. Charged in the indictment are.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 43-year-old Erie, Pennsylvania resident pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former owner of two New Jersey defense contracting businesses was indicted by a federal grand jury today for allegedly submitting fraudulent bids to the U.S Department of Defense (DoD) and disseminating military technical drawings to India without a license, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VENITA GODFREY-SCOTT, 48, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio today, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia sentenced 23-year-old Michael Douglas Glasenapp was sentenced to 220 months in federal prison followed by a 30 years of supervised release for distribution of child pornography announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher H. Combs.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders today introduced bipartisan legislation that improves the infrastructure, reduces costs, leverages private sector resources, creates greater accountability and transparency, and accelerates project delivery for Amtrak and the Nation’s passenger rail transportation system.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - On Sept. 10, 2014, Joel Leon Thomas, Jr., 24, of El Mirage, Ariz., was sentenced by Judge David G. Campbell to 49.5 years in federal prison for masterminding three bank robberies in Peoria, Surprise, and Sun City from January - February 2012. In March 2014, a federal jury found Thomas guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Ian Quincy Winn, 48, of Kuna, Idaho, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison, followed by ten years of supervised release for receipt and attempted receipt of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Winn to undergo sex offender treatment, and forfeit the computer equipment used in the crime. He pleaded guilty to the charge on April 7, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Albany, NY - Assistant United States Attorneys Elizabeth Coombe, Richard Belliss and Wayne Myers and former Assistant United States Attorney John Katko were among the 243 members of the Department of Justice recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder at the 30th annual Director’s Awards Ceremony on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I have continually stated that filling vacancies across the Department is a key priority of mine, and today I thank the Senate for confirming Joseph Nimmich as Deputy Administrator at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Under his leadership, Joe will continue to ensure that FEMA effectively leverages its full resources to help communities prepare for, respond to and recover from major disasters.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: A 26-year-old man from Newport News, Virginia, was sentenced today to serve 255 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for engaging in numerous gang-related crimes as a member of the Black P-Stones, including the shooting of a rival gang member, marijuana dealing and lying to a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: A former LaPorte County deputy auditor has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Indiana for embezzling over $150,000 from the LaPorte County government and committing tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: An East Side Bloods (ESB) gang member from Scottsdale, Arizona, was sentenced late yesterday to serve 30 years in prison for his role in the violent street gang, which operated on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community reservation.
